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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1988
Gerald T Wade, Auburn, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A performance and measurement system for a computing system is presented. Performance data produced by the computing system is collected and reduced before being logged. Once the data is logged, the data may be transported to a workstation and accessed by a user. In the preferred embodiment, the collected and reduced data is logged into three files. The first file is a global data file into which is logged information about the computing system as a whole. The second file is a process data file into which is logged information about selected processes. The third file is a workload data file into which is logged information about classes of processes. Information about processes are logged into the process data file when a process does something 'interesting' during a specified interval. For example, a process may be considered to have done something interesting when the process is started, is terminated or uses a predetermined amount of a computing system resource during the specified interval.